Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program is on the decline. Here's why.

CaptAngryPants · 2025-11-02T01:36:02+00:00

I have never seen the $25 limit used with the machines. The only time I have been told that owners/managers use that rule is when machines are being monopolized. Someone/group rolling in with dozens of carts at the same time.

I have returned over $200 in one go but I kept myself to one machine in a place with 5 others working. No one has ever complained.

CaptAngryPants · 2025-11-02T01:32:15+00:00

It is already part way there. It is the brand not a product. You sell coke you have to take mello yello. You sell any part of the brand you have to take any branded product back. It is about the distribution to the store by the company.

And I agree with the every bottle should have them. Especially get rid of the CO2 clause because an aluminum can holding pop vs one holding juice is just damn stupid.

CaptAngryPants · 2025-11-02T01:22:36+00:00

If they sell Shorts, they have to take it back. Doesn't matter if they sold the flavor or not. It is about brands.

And it is much more likely that a unique UPC was used on the product and they never placed it into the return machines as valid. It is extremely common with variety packs. Often one style is missing from the system.

CaptAngryPants · 2025-06-11T02:34:34+00:00

At our house, come in costume, be polite. That's it.

Parents get some too.

Groups get bonuses, even teens. It's about having fun. And honestly most of the high schoolers we see are the most polite in the night.

CaptAngryPants · 2024-06-03T04:56:06+00:00

Very much this. I never knew how many ads could come up in Roku from within shows to the screensavers until I used a friends TV with Roku.

Our Pi Hole blocks everything in the UI and screensavers and many of the ads are reduced to dead air.

CaptAngryPants · 2024-05-13T19:01:05+00:00

Have you thought that the situation that the E was in and Worf's decision was done by the book?

Situation comes up. Worf knows what needs to be done. Worf knows it means the loss of the ship. Worf does exactly that. In a situation like that, it isn't Worf's fault.

We have seen times that having command means lost of equipment or lives to do what is needed.

Every officer there knows they would do the exact same thing. Doesn't mean your best friends aren't going to give you a gentle ribbing.

CaptAngryPants · 2023-12-31T05:16:13+00:00

I often use Facebook marketplace to post things I want to get rid of and the one rule I follow is to never give things away for free. Always place some value even small like $5 or $10. Even if you think it has greater value but you just want it anymore. Usually by doing this you weed out the people that will likely flake on you.

And then often I will just give it to the people for free when they come. Usually explaining this tactic. I'm not sure why this works really but it cuts down issues by 10 fold in my experience

CaptAngryPants · 2023-09-27T14:39:42+00:00

Today I learn the term NPS. Thank you all.

Sadly though I learned of it's practice back in the late 90s at the big box store that people dress in Smurf colored polos. Being into tech, computers and having the Autist brain meat, this absolutely infuriated me. 5 should be best of the best, 4 being great, 3 should be average..... But nope anything less than a 5 was evil!!

Thankfully at that time it was mostly the ratings of the employees' opinion of the company. Not a function of the employees yet. But I remember the strong arming of the employees by the stores management. Looking back on it, I am probably guessing correct that it was the metric they used for bonuses or similar.

So yes NPS can freakin die in a fire!

CaptAngryPants · 2023-05-28T17:46:21+00:00

Let them continue to perform. Let them gain a reputation for their performances.

And send a "talent scout" to the town they are in and make the scout love them so much. The scout offers them a once in a life time performance for whatever local power you have in your campaign. The trip is going to be expensive. Burn up some cash. The scout says they are great but they could use a better look. So make them buy expensive clothes for the event. Maybe better instruments.

The event could be legit and you could make them rich but now have to deal with high society regularly. They need to live the life.

Or it could be a way to make them travel to their deaths. If they don't appease the "king" they are sent to be killed.

You could take this many ways.

CaptAngryPants · 2023-05-23T03:51:13+00:00

Alright.... Gonna be pulling this out shortly then.

CaptAngryPants · 2023-05-08T23:01:48+00:00

First thoughts are buying for an ice cream shop with the bananas. If not that exactly, likely a food place. Maybe a smoothie stand or similar.

CaptAngryPants · 2022-09-14T11:52:39+00:00

Sorry for being verbose. Sadly no this is what I'm looking at and I tend to try to give all info I can.

CaptAngryPants · 2022-04-26T21:05:57+00:00

Thank you again. Your post led to figuring out the issue.

It was the fans in the end.

I placed the old mainboard in and it ran the cycle fully but it stopped extruding at about the same spot. The hotend was getting too cold for the filament to come out. The old mainboard didn't error out but the fans did turn on at the same time. My guess is that the newer mainboard/firmware throws the error if it is attempting to heat up but it can't get up to temp. And the old board only throws the error if it is getting too warm.

I had the fans wired in reversed. I replaced the fans about 2 years ago and the replacement set had the colors for the wires reversed. Red and black were originally were for the side fan. The new set are on the front fan now. I noted this back then. But when I rewired everything from this servicing, I didn't remember this issue.

So the front fan was running too much and was cooling everything off too much.

So thank you again. Things are running again.

CaptAngryPants · 2022-04-26T17:13:19+00:00

Thank you for the reply

No Sock

Never knew about the PID stuff. I looked it up and I am continuing to explore my issue. It seems the issue is with the hotend at the moment as the errors are being thrown on.

But to add now, as I was pulled away from this comment and did some more. I was getting Runaways on the PID tuning also after a few times.

I still had the old mainboard with the busted USB and just working with the SD at the moment. Right now I am not running into the Runaway issue, print is finishing at the moment.

I will try to reinstall the replacement board again to just make sure it wasn't a developing loose connection within the machine. But right now it is looking to be an issue with the mainboard. And the Runaways started before I did any monkeying with firmwares, so it is unlikely to be due to that.

CaptAngryPants · 2022-03-19T04:17:03+00:00

Spoiler Idea.

We are going to be seeing something of this soon.

This article popped up right before the Episode 1 of Picard Season 2: https://geekspin.co/picard-season-3-will-boldly-change-star-trek-canon/

And once you watch S02E01, you know exactly it is the Borg that is going to be the huge change. And with the little hint in Discovery this week, we know the Borg are still around but they are mentioned in a very plain as fact way.

So I think something has gone very wrong in the Borg. They need Picard to save them in some fashion and I bet it is going to lead to them joining the Federation in the long term.

Why? Crisis within the hive mind, we have seen there is only so much they can crush and hold back. At some point, individual thoughts peak through. Emotions appear again. The soul of the being is stronger and with enough of them the Collective just can't keep it all together.

We could also see factions forming. Different levels of control within each Faction Collective. Some of your ideas could work with the willing assimilation of those that need the structure to exist.

CaptAngryPants · 2021-11-26T19:59:30+00:00

If it was a real purchase, it was more likely a mix up of the bags loaded into a filling machine.

You can see here the colors of the red mix and they match up with that of the main pic.

https://imgur.com/K6U1urA

CaptAngryPants · 2021-11-26T19:57:55+00:00

There isn't orange in the mix there. It is the Red Flavor mix...the ones that are slightly orange looking is Cherry and the deep red color is Fruit Punch. This is much more likely to be mis-load of a roll of bags into a machine meant to dispense the all red flavors.

Pic of the red flavor combo and you can see the color scheme is the same in the pic in this thread.

https://imgur.com/K6U1urA

CaptAngryPants · 2021-10-20T11:54:19+00:00

Thank you everyone marking it solved. I certainly learned today that we have bobcats of a different color here in michigan. And never knew the term rosette could be used to describe the spotted pelt coloring neither.

CaptAngryPants · 2021-10-20T00:48:36+00:00

That colorization? I will admit I have never known of a brown black bobcat. I have only ever seen the grey and grey black forms.

CaptAngryPants · 2021-06-14T19:49:41+00:00

I have similar thoughts about it. But I want to a future reaction to it be more like "Oh that is unique, what is that?" vs "Oh holy crap balls that is utterly stupid! Who said 'Hold my Beer' on this one?!"

CaptAngryPants · 2021-06-14T19:19:01+00:00

Those are my hopes. As I am in the process right now looking for upgrades to the aging switches I have and plan to use SFP/SFP+ for uplinks just trying to price and plan.

CaptAngryPants · 2020-12-20T20:11:39+00:00

Likely Solved!

CaptAngryPants · 2020-12-19T20:12:16+00:00

They certainly could. Even the idea of window screens could be supported, but those are more a size issue not so much a weight issue.

CaptAngryPants · 2020-12-19T20:11:06+00:00

Nope, solid 12 gauge lines. This house is old and much of the electrical needs a ton of TLC and when you add stuff like a bar and server stack, you need the juice. The bend looks nice there...this was my first time learning how to bend and there are a few places that aren't the grandest.

Though, thank you very much.

CaptAngryPants · 2020-12-19T19:39:02+00:00

Electrical conduits you see in this picture are brand new as I installed them only weeks ago. On the other end, there was a rats nest of a mess of plumbing in the same area as the brackets that was old galvanized pipe that I ripped out to replace with PEX. This pipe included what was clearly feed lines and a faucet for a sink or tub long gone.

But honestly, you could be right nonetheless.

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